NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 16 December, 2022

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: p  a  i  o  r  t  y

  • Total Answers: 59
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AI

  1. AI7 — a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and a terminal synonyms—aerodrome, airdrome, airfield, field sounds like—carport, deport, escort, export, import

AP

  1. AP5 — into parts or pieces synonyms—asunder, piecemeal sounds like—part

  2. AP6 — a place where bees are kept; especially : a collection of hives or colonies of bees kept for their honey sounds like—aviary, parry, query, speedy, spree

  3. AP7 — ***us sounds like—abbot, accurate, afferent, agate, amorist

AT

  1. AT4 — on top of synonyms—above, over sounds like—stop, top

PA

  1. PA4 — two things of the same or similar kind that match or are considered together synonyms—brace, couple, couplet, duo, dyad sounds like—air, bare, bear, care, chair

  2. PA4 — a male human parent synonyms—dad, daddy, father, old man, pa sounds like—pop, poppy

  3. PA6 — a tropical American tree (Carica ** of the family Caricaceae, the ** family) having an oblong to globose yellow edible fruit with numerous black seeds in a central cavity; also : its fruit sounds like—pecan, pup, puppet, puppy, upon

  4. PA5 — papa sounds like—happy, peppy, poppy, puppy

  5. PA6 — a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley; the pith of the papyrus plant especially when made into strips and pressed into a material to write on; a writing on papyrus sounds like—cadre, carry, happy

  6. PA9 — troops trained and equipped to parachute from an airplane

  7. PA6 — the state or fact of being exactly the same in number, amount, status, or quality synonyms—coequality, coordinateness, equality, equivalence, equivalency sounds like—rarity, verity

  8. PA6 — to say after another synonyms—ditto, echo, quote, reecho, repeat sounds like—beret, carat, ferret, merit, pellet

  9. PA5 — as in avoid, evade synonyms—avoid, elude, escape, evade, shirk sounds like—airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

  10. PA4 — one of the pieces from which something is designed to be assembled; something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group; the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists synonyms—member, ition, portion, section, segment sounds like—a, art, cart, chart, dart

  11. PA7 — variation; suite

  12. PA5 — a social gathering; a group of people acting together within a larger group; a group of people working together on a task synonyms—affair, bash, binge, blast, blowout sounds like—arty, hearty, potty

  13. PA5 — an open space wholly or partly enclosed (as by buildings or walls) synonyms—close, court, courtyard, enclosure, quad

  14. PA7 — a person who loves his or her country and supports its interests and policies synonyms—loyalist sounds like—atrium

  15. PA5 — a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried synonyms—cake, croquette, cutlet, fritter, galette sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, natty

PI

  1. PI5 — any of various small songbirds (family Motacillidae and especially genus Anthus) resembling the lark sounds like—peanut, people, puppet

  2. PI4 — to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner synonyms—beat, pal**te, pitter-patter, pulsate, pulse sounds like—cheetah, peter

  3. PI7 — to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner synonyms—beat, palpitate, pitter-patter, pulsate, pulse sounds like—puppet

  4. PI4 — a regrettable or blameworthy act; the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune synonyms—crime, disgrace, shame, sin, bigheartedness sounds like—city, ditty, kitty, patty, petty

PO

  1. PO4 — solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal synonyms—dirt, doo-doo, dropping, dung, excrement sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop

  2. PO4 — lacking money or material possessions; producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation; less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable synonyms—beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-** sounds like—boor, lure, moor, pair, pare

  3. PO5 — a male human parent synonyms—dad, daddy, father, old man, pa

  4. PO5 — a cultivated corn * with brightly colored usually white, pink, or red single or double flowers sounds like—choppy, copy, peppy, puppy

  5. PO4 — a part of a body of water protected and deep enough to be a place of safety for ships synonyms—anchorage, harbor, harborage, haven sounds like—court, fort, part, short, sort

  6. PO8 — a vivid representation in words of someone or something synonyms—definition, delineation, depiction, description, picture sounds like—fortress, shortcut

  7. PO7 — to give a representation or account of in words; to point out the chief quality or qualities of an individual or group; to present a picture of synonyms—delineate, depict, describe, draw, image sounds like—paltry

  8. PO6 — a lazy person synonyms—deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, idler, layabout sounds like—petite, tomato

  9. PO5 — being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior synonyms—aristocratic, elitist, high-hat, persnickety, ritzy sounds like—knotty, party, patty, petty, pity

PR

  1. PR4 — a stupid person synonyms—airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, bubblehead sounds like—brat, pat, rat

  2. PR4 — to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner synonyms—appeal (to), beg, beseech, besiege, conjure sounds like—fray, gray, grey, pay, play

  3. PR5 — coming before all others in importance; going before another in time or order synonyms—arch, big, capital, cardinal, central sounds like—drier, dryer, friar, fryer

  4. PR8 — the right to one's attention before other things considered less important synonyms—precedence, right-of-way sounds like—authority, majority, minority, parity, paucity

  5. PR6 — a residence for men under religious vows synonyms—abbey, cloister, friary, hermitage, monastery

  6. PR4 — a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else synonyms—brace, buttress, mount, mounting, reinforcement sounds like—crop, drop, plop, pop

PY

  1. PY4 — fire : heat; produced by or as if by the action of heat; derived from a corresponding ortho acid by loss usually of one molecule of water from two molecules of acid sounds like—gyro, pro

RA

  1. RA7 — a friendly relationship marked by ready communication and mutual understanding synonyms—communion, fellowship, rapprochement sounds like—pore, pour, repair, report

  2. RA4 — experiencing or marked by overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion; having the mind fixed on something synonyms—ecstatic, elated, elevated, en, enured sounds like—apt, lapped, tapped

  3. RA6 — a carnivorous medium- to large-sized bird (such as a hawk, eagle, owl, or vulture) that has a hooked beak and large sharp talons and that feeds wholly or chiefly on meat taken by hunting or on carrion : bird of prey; a usually small-to-medium-sized predatory dinosaur (such as a veloci** or deinonychus) sounds like—captor, chapter, wrapper

  4. RA7 — a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape synonyms—bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma sounds like—strap, trap

RO

  1. RO4 — being of a consistency that resists flow synonyms—syrupy, thick, viscid, viscous sounds like—choppy, copy, poppy, rupee

TA

  1. TA4 — a coarse cloth made in the Pacific islands from the pounded bark especially of the paper mulberry and usually decorated with geometric patterns sounds like—top, topper, topple

  2. TA5 — any of a genus (*us) of herbivorous chiefly nocturnal perissodactyl mammals of tropical America and southeastern Asia from Myanmar to Sumatra that have a heavy sparsely hairy body and the snout and upper lip prolonged into a short flexible proboscis

  3. TA7 — a primary root that grows vertically downward and gives off small lateral roots; the central element or position in a line of growth or development sounds like—uproot

  4. TA4 — a piece of material (such as durable plastic or waterproofed canvas) used especially for protecting exposed objects or areas : **aulin sounds like—carp, harp, sharp, top

TI

  1. TI5 — as in wobbly, shaky synonyms—rocky, shaky, tipsy, wavery, wobbly sounds like—dippy, hippie

  2. TI6 — of the very best kind synonyms—A-OK, A1, awesome, bang-up, banner sounds like—hilltop, laptop

TO

  1. TO7 — a plant shaped by *** art; *** plants; *** art or gardening; also : a *** garden sounds like—aviary, parry, potpourri, prairie, tarry

  2. TO6 — lack of interest or concern; physical or mental inertness synonyms—apathy, casualness, complacence, disinterestedness, disregard

TR

  1. TR4 — a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise; a setup in which hidden attackers lie in wait; something that catches and holds synonyms—ambush, net, snare, web, ambuscade sounds like—crap, rap, s**, tap

  2. TR4 — a going from one place to another usually of some distance; an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy synonyms—expedition, journey, passage, peregrination, travel(s) sounds like—drip, grip, rip, s**, tip

  3. TR6 — of, relating to, or suggestive of a trip on psychedelic drugs or the culture associated with such drugs

  4. TR5 — an organized group of stage performers; the combined army, air force, and navy of a nation synonyms—company, troupe, armed forces, colors, military sounds like—droop, group

TY

  1. TY4 — an error (as of spelling) in typed or typeset material

YA

  1. YA5 — sounds like—happy, yuppie

airport, apart, apiary, apparat, atop, pair, papa, papaya, pappy, papyri, paratroop, parity, parrot, parry, part, partita, party, patio, patriot, patty, pipit, pita, pitapat, pity, poop, poor, poppa, poppy, port, portrait, portray, potato, potty, prat, pray, prior, priority, priory, prop, pyro, rapport, rapt, raptor, rattrap, ropy, tapa, tapir, taproot, tarp, tippy, tiptop, topiary, torpor, trap, trip, trippy, troop, typo, yappy